Talcott Levy grew up in London’s biggest Jewish community in the East End suburbs. In the politically turbulent 80’s he witnessed a great deal of racism and was subject to anti-Semitism. He was drawn to the second wave of mod not only by the clothes and the music ...

Pete McKenna – Currently living in Spain with my partner Karmen Del Castillo. Started writing in 1995 after getting laid off work. Completed my first book Nightshift which is a gritty hardhitting recollection of the 70’s northern soul scene published in 1996 that ...

Roger Marriott was born on a council estate in West London, growing up with the sounds of the seventies all around him, something that he couldn’t quite connect with at the time. As a teenager in the eighties he discovered the lexicon of sixties soul music and, in his own wo ...

Adrian Lee Noon also known as Ady, born in Nottingham in 1965. Ady grew up on caravan site in Netheravon listening to Sweet, Mud and Sweet. In the hot summer of 1976 he began writing small verses to amuse himself.
He soon discovered punk – and later 2tone and music bec ...

Steve Piper was born in Epping 1969 by the time of his third birthday his dad had left leaving Steve, his mother Dot and sister to get on with it.
His first musical memories are of his nan and grandad singing ‘A Scottish Soldier’ and ‘Amazing Grace’ around their home and his ...

I’ve been writing about movie sleaze and demented Rock ‘n’ Roll since 1995 and have written for the magazines Total Film, Bite Me, BFM and The Encyclopedia of Cinematic Trash.
My first book ‘Let’s Wreck’ was a part-biographical look at the Psychobilly ...

Matteo Sedazzari, like the hero of Crafty Cigarette, became a Jam fan by accident after playing ‘All Mods Cons’ during the school Easter holidays. A moment of epiphany for him, as it was for many of his generation, when the combined forces of Buckler, Foxton and Weller chang ...

Born in Leicester late 1965 into a Pakistani/Afghani household, the oldest of 5 siblings. My parents 1st generation immigrants and working- class in an area predominately mixed with Asian, black and Polish immigrants. We did not look like the typical Asians as my brothers ha ...

Sales might have slumped from the mid-70s on, but writers and small publishers have attempted to resurrect the glory days. With no proper marketing might and low production budgets it has been an uphill struggle, but here are some of the best:
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